Today, most organizations are using packaged software for their key business processes. Enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM) and electronic commerce (EC) systems enable organizations to improve their focus of using information systems (IS) to support their operational and financial goals. This article argues that the need to i...

We examine the relationship between derivatives hedging, risk-taking, and managerial compensation incentives from an enterprise risk management perspective in U.S. publicly traded property-liability insurance companies. We find that derivatives usage is negatively related to various risks, supporting the stabilizing effect of derivatives use for hedging purposes. Our evidence also shows that de...

Compliance management, risk analysis, and auditing are disciplines that are critical for large scale distributed enterprise systems. The way these complex systems are developed and deployed makes the management and enforcement of enterprise goals or policies a hard task. This is also true for compliance management of business processes (BPs). Such an observation is emphasized if we give complia...

This paper presents a practical case study of a methodology for the systematic creation of an IT strategy, as developed at the University of Pretoria, a large South African research university. The methodology is pragmatic rather than academic and was developed for implementation in a university environment. The resulting strategy takes into account strategic alignment, business drivers and ext...

This article presents the knowledge and experience acquired trough the process of establishing MDD practices within a small Italian company. Special attention has been devoted to project constraints, perceived risks, and relative mitigation strategies. Moreover the article evaluates how the introduction of the MDD approach was received by different stakeholders. In particular a structured quest...

Although research and practice has attributed considerable attention to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects their failure rate is still high. There are two main fields of research, which aim at increasing the success rate of ERP projects: Research on risk factors and research on success factors. Despite their topical relatedness, efforts to integrate these two fields have been rare. Aga...

Supply chain disruptions significantly impact businesses worldwide. Many organizations work towards improving flexibility so as to prepare for such disruptions and maintain competitive advantage. This research effort examines four activities that are associated with the contingency planning process to determine which, if any, of these processes are ultimately supportive of organizational flexib...

Manufacturing enterprises in the future will have to survive and develop in the network economy with the development of information and network communication technology, the globalization of economy, and the interaction of these two factors. Nowadays the business environments which manufacturing enterprises are facing are very complicated and volatile. The traditional coordinating relationships...

Interoperability as a key to the global market is often hindered by a lack of continuity of IT solutions but also by organizational and cultural differences between companies. The paper describes a methodology for assessment of Enterprise Interoperability leading to a possible solution by Enterprise Interoperability Management. An initial concept for assessment shown with a practical example wi...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a risk identification checklist for facilitating user companies to surface, organise and manage potential risks associated with the post-adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Design/methodology/approach – A desktop study, based on the process of a critical literature review, was conducted by the researchers. The critical review...